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Murdering Antifa's Was His Fantasy: Spokane Bomber

Discussion in 'Anarchism and radical activism' started by punkmar77, Mar 10, 2011.

  1. punkmar77

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    Alleged Spokane Bomber Fantasized about Killing Anti-Racists


    Posted in Extremist Crime, Neo-Nazi by Heidi Beirich on March 10, 2011


    Kevin William Harpham, the alleged Martin Luther King Day bomber who was arrested yesterday, was deeply involved in the white supremacist movement and once fantasized about killing anti-racists.

    The Army veteran posted his thoughts, in fact, more than 1,000 times on the racist and anti-Semitic internet forum Vanguard News Network (VNN) since 2004.

    “I can’t wait till the day I snap,” Harpham wrote under the pseudonym “Joe Snuffy” in a November 2004 message. Harpham was responding to a post about German anti-racists protesting white supremacists. The post claimed the police cared only about the anti-racists and “turned their loaded guns on the neo-Nazis.”

    “Videos like that bring me closer to it every time I watch them,” Harpham wrote. “Fear of death is the only thing stopping me and it is a fear that is hard to get over if you can relate to that.”

    Harpham also showed a deep interest in bombs. “Who was the person during WW2 that said something like ‘Those who say you can’t win a war by bombing have never tried,’” Harpham posted to VNN, also in November 2004. The same month, in a VNN discussion of thorium, a slightly radioactive element sometimes used in nuclear reactors, Harpham mentioned “its uselessness in building bombs,” indicating some real knowledge of explosives.

    These items were posted the same year that Harpham signed on as a member of the National Alliance, for years the most prominent neo-Nazi organization in the United States. In 2005, Harpham participated in a VNN thread devoted to The Turner Diaries, the race war novel written by the founder and leader of the National Alliance, William Pierce (Pierce died in 2002). The novel inspired Timothy McVeigh’s attack on the Oklahoma federal building in 1995, and pages of it were found in McVeigh’s car when he was arrested. That bombing killed 168 men, women and children.

    Harpham wrote on VNN that while he was in the Army, “my lieutenant told me Tim McVey [sic] read The Turner Diaries and that there was a blueprint for a truck bomb in it.” But Harpham ended up disappointed with the book because “there was [sic] no plans for a bomb inside.”

    Besides the National Alliance, Harpham was a contributor to the white nationalist newspaper, The Aryan Alternative, published by longtime white supremacist Glenn Miller. Miller, who was the head of the White Patriot Party in the 1980s and before that of the Carolina Knights of the KKK, was convicted of contempt of court in a federal civil case (filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center) for raising a paramilitary army and using explosives. After the conviction, he declared war on the United States, went underground and was subsequently captured with a cache of weapons and explosives after an armed standoff in Schell City, Mo.

    Thanking Harpham for supporting his newspaper, Miller wrote in 2004 on VNN, “You rank among the top 5-6 VNN’ers in total amount of money contributed. When [we] needed a boost, you were always among those who stepped up.”

    KXLY in Spokane also reported today that Harpham had expressed interest in the mid-2000s in joining the Aryan Nations, long a major neo-Nazi group in Idaho until the group lost its compound in Hayden Lake, Idaho, as the result of another SPLC lawsuit.

    David Holthouse at Media Matters disclosed yesterday that Harpham had offered to house Craig Cobb, a longtime neo-Nazi now on the run from hate crimes charges in Canada and an advocate of “lone wolf” violence. The offer was made just 10 days after Harpham’s last post on VNN, on Jan. 16, which was also the day before the attempted bombing. Cobb created the virulently racist and anti-Semitic website Podblanc in 2007, which encourages hate crime murders of non-whites and Jews. It features tribute videos to “lone wolf” white supremacist killers, including Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, who in July 1999 went on a three-day shooting rampage targeting Jews and non-whites.

    “Craig, if you read this and you need a place to stay for the winter I have an empty basement with a couple rooms, a bed and bathroom you can live in till spring,” Harpham posted. “I live in Washington not too far from [your home] Kalispell [Montana].” Cobb replied that there was a “small chance” he’d take Harpham up on his offer.

    http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/03/1 ... r=HW031011
     

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    I had never heard of VNN so I decided to check it out. This shit is ridiculous, it's hard to believe that people like this actually exist.
    http://www(dot)vnnforum(dot)com/forumdisplay.php?s=59ea9c8af415823a7b907549d405c086&f=89
     
  3. punkmar77

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    Grizz disabled the link but people can paste and copy if they want and just change the (dot) back to (.), fuckin inbred troglodytes...it kills me that people defend the right for these fucktards to enjoy 'free speech'.
     
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    I feel ashamed to share a species with people like that, let alone a race.
     
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    It's nice to have a dream.... o_O
     
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    wow, what a fucking crazy asshole
     
  8. punkmar77

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    The Spokane Bomb Attempt: Who Is Kevin William Harpham?

    Posted in Anti-Black, Extremist Crime by Bill Morlin on March 10, 2011

    So who is the suspect accused of building a “weapon of mass destruction” and planting it along the route of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day unity parade route in Spokane, Wash.?

    The emerging picture suggests 36-year-old Kevin William Harpham is a “lone wolf’’ with a military ordnance background and apparently increasingly extreme radical-right views that may have prompted the attempt to carry out a mass murder on the late civil rights leader’s birthday. He is also a man who has joined a neo-Nazi group, apparently posted to racial extremist websites and worried that the 9/11 attacks were actually a government conspiracy.

    The domestic terrorism suspect faces the possibility of life in prison if convicted of the initial two charges he faces: attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and possession of an improvised explosive device. Other federal charges could come when a federal grand jury in Spokane reviews the case on March 22.

    “This one is very serious,” federal defender Roger Peven said outside the courtroom, moments after he was appointed to represent Harpham.

    The backpack bomb, reportedly containing shrapnel dipped in rat poison to enhance bleeding, was spotted moments before hundreds of people were to march by it. Authorities rerouted the parade immediately.

    At some risk, a bomb squad defused the device and kept it intact — likely leading the FBI to capture a windfall of forensic evidence, possibly including fingerprints and DNA that could have identified Harpham as the suspect.

    The affidavit of probable cause used to affect the suspect’s arrest is sealed from public inspection — another indication of the secrecy surrounding the 51-day investigation by the FBI’s Inland Northwest Joint Terrorism Task Force.

    Despite the official secrecy, Hampton has left Internet fingerprints and other public records that give a glimpse of him.

    Internet postings believed to be those of the former Army artillery soldier suggest he had an interest in old cars, metal fabrication, the neo-Nazi National Alliance and conspiracy theories associated with the attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.

    Harpham, who was raised Stevens County in the rural northeast corner of Washington state, was a member of the National Alliance in late 2004, the Southern Poverty Law Center revealed yesterday.

    He also lived in Spokane from 1999 to 2004 and in East Wenatchee, Wash., from 2004 to 2006. His parents live near Kettle Falls, another Stevens County community, not far from Harpham’s home in Addy, Wash.

    A man using the name “Kevin Harpham” posted a message in 2008 on the anti-Semitic Vanguard News Network, operated by Alex Linder of Kirksville, Mo., himself a former member of the National Alliance.

    On another Web site, Harpham posted that he watched the video “Loose Change” — popularized by the antigovernment “Patriot” group We Are Change — that the U.S. government was behind the attacks of Sept. 11.

    Leading anti-Semites, including Christopher Bollyn, have suggested that Jews were responsible for 9/11.

    On the “Loose Change” Facebook page, there are references to a “Zionist connection” and links to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion — a famous forgery that is a touchstone for the neo-Nazi right, including the late founder of the Aryan Nations, Richard Butler, who accuse Jews of plotting to control the world.

    “I typically don’t buy into these conspiracies, then my friends told me to watch this video called ‘Loose Change,’” Harpham posted on another website forum devoted to steam automobiles.

    “Some of the stuff was speculation but overall it changed my opinion greatly,’’ the Harpham posting said.

    Harpham served in the U.S. Army in 1996-97, when records suggest he was part of the 1st Battalion, 37th Field Artillery Regiment at Fort Lewis, Wash.

    It’s not been public divulged if Harpham’s military training includes exposure to improvised explosive devices like those encounter by soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan — and like the one found sitting on a corner park bench in downtown Spokane on Jan. 17.

    During Harpham’s time in the U.S. Army, as the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report first reported in 2006, military investigators identified 320 extremists in the Army ranks at Fort Lewis, the sprawling military base near Tacoma in western Washington. (Eventually, the Pentagon tightened its rules in response to that and subsequent articles in the Report.)

    It’s not known if Harpham shared antigovernment, anti-Semitic or racist views during his time in the military.

    In media interviews Wednesday, various people who knew or lived near Harpham’s isolated mobile home at Addy, Wash., described him as a loner and not overly neighborly.

    Once FBI agents identified him as a suspect, they weren’t taking chances.

    A SWAT team of agents was brought to Spokane in advance of the Wednesday’s early morning arrest of the suspect.

    Armed FBI agents, using Stevens County road department equipment, appeared to be working on a road near a narrow bridge as Harpham left his residence.

    According to various media accounts, as Harpham’s vehicle slowed for the construction workers, a “flash-bang” device commonly used by SWAT teams as a distraction, was fired through one of the car’s windows.

    In no time, Harpham was arrested without incident and whisked to the U.S. Courthouse in Spokane, about 52 miles away.

    Other FBI agents then served a search warrant and spent the day combing Harpham’s residence for evidence that could be tied to the backpack bomb.

    Authorities were mum about what they found.

    In court, Harpham appeared a bit bedraggled, dressed in blue jeans and a gray “Wells Fargo-Petty Racing” shirt. He made his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Cynthia Imbrogno.

    Looking like he hadn’t shaved for a few days, Harpham poured himself glasses of water and didn’t look around the crowded courtroom during the brief proceeding.

    He told the judge he understood his constitutional rights to remain silent, the charges against him, the possible penalties and asked the court to appoint a public defender.

    Peven, chief trial counsel for the Federal Defenders of Eastern Washington and Idaho, and Assistant Federal Defender Kim Deater appeared to represent Harpham.

    Peven told the judge Harpham would waive his right to have a bail hearing within three days, meaning he will be held in federal custody.

    The federal defender can attempt at a later date to request a bail hearing, but Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Harrington is expected to argue that Harpham is either a flight risk or danger to the community, or both, and should not be released under any circumstances
     
  9. JesusCrust

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    Wham bam, thank you ma'am. Also, on that VNN site, most of those idiots referred to the NWO as the JWO, or "jew world order."
     
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